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Monday, October 31, 2022

Oops: The federal government (illegally) gave China this $15 million technology… for free

Real Clear Politics

The U.S. Department of Energy illegally gave China $15 million in taxpayer-funded, groundbreaking technology for a powerful rechargeable battery used for grid energy storage.  It took six years and more than $15 million from taxpayers to develop a vanadium redox flow battery that scientists thought could power a house and could be charged and recharged for up to 30 years, according to an investigation by NPR and the Northwest News Network. But the DOE gave the technology to the Chinese in 2017 as part of a sublicence, and in 2021 as part of a license transfer..........To Read More..

My Take - How does anyone in government "accidentally" give a foreign power technology?  Technology they don't have, can't develop and will use against us!  And who's been fired over this?  No one as far as I can tell.  Another good reason to dump the Energy Department.

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